cocked hat

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Recent Examples of cocked hat One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat. Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024 Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat. William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cocked hat
Noun
  • The actress accessorized with a baseball cap and favored the peekaboo bra trend as well, which has been styled by such stars as Kristen Stewart, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Sydney Sweeney throughout 2024.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
  • And everything from the leather bags to the internet-famous slogan baseball caps makes incredible gifting material for the coolest women in your life.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • For the remainder of the camp, drawings of six-legged spiders donning top hats began appearing on the children’s lesson papers and the sidewalks outside.
    Brennan Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In the Emerald City sequence, two chickens in top hats waddle across a crowd scene.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Beyoncé is dressed head to toe in white with an enormous fur cowboy hat and a shaggy coat cascading around her.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Donning blond braids and an all-white outfit with a matching fluffy cowboy hat, the singer poses as the cactus lights up.
    Caché McClay, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Thomas Redgate shows a smiling 24-year-old, a service cap crowning his head, a tan tie and shirt underneath his dress uniform.
    Denise Coffey, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
Noun
  • First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap.
    Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Prisoners were given numbers instead of names, had a chain attached to one leg, and were dressed in smocks and stocking caps.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Top that off with Oppenheimer’s signature wide-brim porkpie hat (which was surprisingly difficult for the costume designer to source), and the look felt timeless, says Mirojnick.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But the wide-brim porkpie hat that was such a signature part of Oppenheimer’s look was surprisingly difficult to find.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
  • It’s one of those ABBA songs that fools you with its mirror ball synths, a classic disco rhythm on the high hat and lush harmonizing.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021

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